[PA Comic] Monday, September 15, 2014 - Circa 1991

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[PA Comic] Monday, September 15, 2014 - Circa 1991

Circa 1991

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/09/15

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Crotonhurst

AHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
*Attempts to look dignified*
I agree, but I still enjoy the game

SaraLuna

what the hell is a peechee?
it looks like a notebook. is it some bizarre northwest slang for notebook?

like calling soda 'pop'?

GONG-00

pablo_price wrote: »

what the hell is a peechee?
it looks like a notebook. is it some bizarre northwest slang for notebook?

like calling soda 'pop'?

Pee Chee Folder

GDT1985

It appears to be the name brand of the notebook, but I have never heard of it either.

Oddfish

This hit so close to home it's unbelievable...

Anyone who ritualistically tattooed every single notebook, folder, binder, book cover, or random sheet of loose leaf will understand.

Lucascraft

I bought Destiny, and I want to like it, but after a week of owning it, it just hasn't gripped me. I'm only level 8 cause I can't find motivation to play.

physi_marc

Lucascraft wrote: »

I bought Destiny, and I want to like it, but after a week of owning it, it just hasn't gripped me. I'm only level 8 cause I can't find motivation to play.

Sometimes, games just don't click with you, even critically acclaimed games (even though Destiny apparently isn't). Personally, I could never get into the Uncharted games. I gave the first two games a fair try, but nope. Not for me. I can already tell that Destiny is not for me, though.

no-one

I see Anthrax, I see Slayer, I see Metallica but I don't see Megadeth. You goddamn Scum, unsubscribed!...er, wrong website. Also number 11 looks like Obama

joshofalltrades

I mean, I'm familiar with the practice of altering folders and scribbling upon them, but I had never heard of a Pee Chee until today.

SwashbucklerXX

I totally remember Pee Chees. Maybe y'all are too young/they were more common on the West Coast/somethin'.

This is beautiful. I love the little details like the bubble-font "peace" on the side and the scratched-out dick drawing. I think I sat in front of this kid in junior high Spanish class in '89.

darkmayo

Yea.. that looks like one of mine, though I don't see a Twisted Sister logo, or a bunch of bombers dropping bombs on one of the runners heads.

Fleur de Alys

The MINTAUR and SORCERIAN concert was a beast.

Nobodey

Oh man! How long did it take you to find a Pee Chee? Do they still make them? I am having flashbacks (and not the good kind!).

jwalk

Oh Shit! A Wizard was the name of my highschool metal band.

joshofalltrades

SwashbucklerXX wrote: »

I totally remember Pee Chees. Maybe y'all are too young/they were more common on the West Coast/somethin'.

This is beautiful. I love the little details like the bubble-font "peace" on the side and the scratched-out dick drawing. I think I sat in front of this kid in junior high Spanish class in '89.

I'm 32. It's clearly not an age thing.

Hahnsoo1

Probably more common on the West Coast. I grew up in the Midwest, my birthyear is in the 70s, and we had things like that, but they weren't called "PeeChees".

Even without the eponym for the portfolio, this work of ART resonates with me. Every looseleaf binder, every Trapper Keeper, every workbook from a textbook that I owned had doodle pen-art full of Transformers, space ships, guns, and logos of whatever I was following at the time.

Zoku Gojira

I think he's onto something. Also, that must've taken some time. Kudos.

Playing Destiny, I did get the distinct impression that every other word was capitalized in the script. It rather reminds me of the Honest Trailers take on Game of Thrones.

Drunken Bastard

Heh, this hits very close to home. The surface ofc is regionally replaceable.

Cabezone

Yeah, I'm on older fart for these parts, also west coast, and I have never heard of them, but the comic works anyway because every kid draws all over their stuff.

Evil Taco

Huh. Yeah, east coast resident here. Closest we had were trapper keeper folders, and they never got a special nickname.

Learn something new every day, I guess. I know I'm near the age of the creators of this comic, so it can't be an age gap thing.

CarbonFire

Having played through Destiny's "story" missions, this rings so true. Still a fun game, but man the story and the lore are a huge whiff.

And I totally remember PeeChees growing up in the 80's in California. Though I never doodled on mine THIS much lol

DevoiD

*googles PeeChee* Ah... the more you know

cB557

joshofalltrades wrote: »

SwashbucklerXX wrote: »

I totally remember Pee Chees. Maybe y'all are too young/they were more common on the West Coast/somethin'.

This is beautiful. I love the little details like the bubble-font "peace" on the side and the scratched-out dick drawing. I think I sat in front of this kid in junior high Spanish class in '89.

I'm 32. It's clearly not an age thing.

said the ooooooold

Commander Zoom

Oregon, late 70s and 80s. Still have a few of them, mixed in with old school papers in a box somewhere.

lionheart_m

Oh man, I remember doing that with all my notebooks. Jesus, I feel OLD.

Jazzy

I also want to know what a Peechee is. I was afraid to google it at work.

Destiny is fun with friends. But then most things are fun with friends.

Demobot

I, too, had no idea what a PeeChee was before this comic. I had a Trapper Keeper with some sort of weird, mid 90's computer rendered landscape on it. Also, I like the idea of the PeeChee from the comic being auctioned for charity.

ziddersroofurry

Wow. This takes me back to Coventry Jr. High school class of 1987. I had a bunch of notebooks like this as well as two jean jackets with art on the back. I drew the cover of Iron Maidens 'Somewhere In Time' album on the back of one, and the cover of Ozzy's 'Ultimate Sin' on the back of another. i miss those jackets-I did a pretty decent job on them if I remember right.

streever

Destiny kind of looks like Borderlands to me, which I hated, so I know it's not for me.

Metal Jared

Slayer, Anthrax, Metallica but no MegaDeth? Dave Mustaine is going to be PISSED

Wasami

Is number 11 our presidente?

Goose!

Oh man, I got confused with what today's comic is because Wednesday's and Fridays appear already for Club PA members. This is excellent.

Bucho

SwashbucklerXX wrote: »

I totally remember Pee Chees. Maybe y'all are too young/they were more common on the West Coast/somethin'.

I've never even been to America but I listen to enough West Coast-based podcasts that I've heard these Pee-Chee folders referenced a bunch of times. Until today I thought they were "Peachy" folders though.

getdarker

There's only one thing missing: dynamite in the runner's hand. Every. Single. Time.

jdwohlever

Am I the only one who noticed that he drew the symbol under the word Destiny that they use in the game?
How the hell is that possible?

Hahnsoo1

jdwohlever wrote: »

Am I the only one who noticed that he drew the symbol under the word Destiny that they use in the game?
How the hell is that possible?

It's not ACTUALLY from 1991. It's just a new peechee that he bought for this project:

Today’s comic was fun for a couple reasons. First it marks a return to shitting on Bungie which has been a staple of the comic for more than a decade. Second, I actually made the Pee-Chee in real life. I thought about trying to do it all digitally in Photoshop but then decided against it. I had to go to a few different stores but finally found a place that still sold Pee-Chees, then I got some ball point pens and went to work. It was really fun going back to my school days and remembering all the shit I used to doodle on my folders. I may actually hand this folder off to Jamie for the Child’s Play auction this year. Maybe someone will want it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/09/15/destiny